We’re always excited to see the way you use Yammer, so when we noticed how many customers are sharing external links we decided to build a new feature to support this activity. Users frequently start discussions around all kinds of web pages on Yammer, sharing everything from viral news stories and business blogs to cloud-based business applications like SharePoint. Now, we have made it even easier to share and talk about these web pages within Yammer – with the Yammer Browser Extension.
The extension adds a Yammer tab to your browser menu, and lets you quickly share any web page you’re viewing – just click on the Yammer icon, choose which Group you’d like to post your message into, and share your own comments with a link to the page.
In addition, as you’re browsing the web, the browser extension will notify you if there’s an existing Yammer conversation about the page. If you see a red notification number on the Yammer icon, that means that your coworkers are already having a discussion on Yammer about that page – simply click on the Yammer icon to pull out a separate viewing pane where you can view the conversation, all while remaining on the web page. You can join in the discussion and post from within this pane.
All in all, the browser extension is a great way to enhance your web browsing experience with Yammer. You can share interesting finds and insights with coworkers without ever having to leave the page, and gain increased context and commentary from your own coworkers while browsing the web. We’re initially offering the Yammer Browser Extension for Google Chrome – come check it out here!
Yammer is now over a year ago bought by Microsoft and the first browser extension for the Yammer product you deliver is one for a non Microsoft browser being Google Chrome, how come?
We recently released a new Windows 8 app that will deliver the same functionality for those users on Windows 8 devices (whether it be a desktop or a tablet). The Internet Explorer in Windows 8 comes equipped with the Share Charm (link to windows.microsoft.com) which allows you to share web pages into certain apps – our latest release allows you to share into Yammer.
The difference between the Windows 8 implementation and the Chrome Browser extension comes down to the fact that the Share Charm is built into Windows 8 (and therefore we only had to build the piece that allowed it to share into Yammer), whereas Chrome doesn’t have a native piece that allows sharing so we built it in the form of an extension.
As with any of our features, we’re looking to see how our users use the browser extension before continuing to iterate and develop further – more platforms (such as Firefox and Windows 7 IE) may be forthcoming depending on these results.
Doesn’t work – nothing happens when I click on Yammer icon.
Sanja, thanks for calling this out. Do you mind submitting a support ticket (link to help.yammer.com) so we can help get this sorted out?
Can see this being very valuable, however, all headlines are currently appearing as “Yammer” when shared via the extension, rather than the actual headline. Not a viable solution until this is resolved.
Paul, I just talked to our engineering team about this and we found a bug that was causing headlines to be rewritten with “Yammer” on certain sites. Thank you for spotting and calling this out – we should have a fix ready for this soon and your extension will auto-update with the fix.
sorry, extension on Chrome Version 28.0.1500.72 m not working – emptyness all over the place.
Matt, could you submit a ticket to link to help.yammer.com ? I’ll let our team working on this know that you’re having issues with that Chrome version but it’ll help us track fix this quicker if we get additional details through a support ticket.